Mindy Kaling

Amy Poehler, Bill Hader and Mindy Kaling are the big-name stars of "Inside Out," Pixar's latest hit that recently arrived on DVD and Blu-ray. But the movie is stolen by the Bucks County-raised Richard Kind, who gives voice — not to mention heart and soul — to Bing Bong, a little girl's forgotten imaginary friend.

Bing Bong is proof of Constantin Stanislavski's adage that there are no small parts, just small actors. With a few scenes, Kind, 58, makes the heartbreaking character one of "Inside Out's" standouts.

"Look, I was just given a magnificent part in a magnificent movie," says the actor, who is Barbra Streisand's cousin and...

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'THE MINDY PROJECT' SEASON PREMIERE
1 Mindy Kaling broke into the world of television as a writer with a small acting role as Kelly Kapoor on the "The Office," the hit sitcom set in a Scranton office. Now, at age 35, she has her own show....

Celebrities are just like us, they vote too.
Just as your Instagram and Twitter feeds are populated with friends showing off their "I voted!" stickers, bracelets and other random Election Day ephemera, the stars took to social media to...

It's the sort of pop-culture turn of events that Mindy Lahiri might talk rapidly and endlessly about outside her office to no one and everyone: A show with a cult following gets canceled and then saved by a steadily-rising-in-stature streaming service...

Fans of "The Mindy Project," your prayers to Beyoncé Pad Thai have been answered: Come Sept. 15, the comedy's fourth season will begin its rollout on Hulu.
You might recall the awkward breakup the comedy endured this spring when Fox...

Mindy Lahiri is pregnant and totally showing, and "The Mindy Project" star Mindy Kaling is showing off the progression of her character's pregnancy on social media.
The orange-clad show runner teased the flashy and fabulous protagonist's...

You know the drill: Whenever a Hollywood star talks about filming sex scenes for a movie or TV show, it's generally accompanied by an eye roll and claims that it's so weird and so awkward and there's usually a giant dude with a camera hovering over you,...

On Woman Crush Wednesday, social media's designated day for women to fawn over the success and inner beauty of our gender, we'll say it: Amy Schumer, you are our spirit animal, the latest crush in a spectacular boom year for woman crushes.
When the...

After a week of speculation among diehard fans of "The Mindy Project," the cult-favorite Fox sitcom created by actress/writer Mindy Kaling, the news is official: The show has been picked up by Hulu for a fourth season.
The online streaming...

“The Mindy Project” has found love with Hulu.
Less than a week after rumblings surfaced that the Mindy Kaling comedy was eyeing a home on the streaming site following its rejection from Fox, a deal has officially been locked in.
Hulu announced...

Mindy Kaling is InStyle magazine's first Indian American cover girl -- and she'd like to be the last one.
So go the text messages Kaling exchanged with InStyle's editorial director Ariel Foxman, who wrote the magazine's June cover...

While "Mindy Project" fans are reeling over news of the show's cancellation and starting petitions for its resurrection, its namesake, Mindy Kaling, is taking it all in with a smile (and a wink).
When news broke Wednesday that the series had...

Should Hulu end up being the rebound platform for "The Mindy Project," it'd be another high sign of the streaming service's aggressive push to up its game.
Universal Television, the studio behind the Mindy Kaling vehicle, has begun talks with...

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Universal Television, which produces the...

Mindy Kaling's brother Vijay Chokalingam says he got into med school in the late '90s by pretending to be black to take advantage of affirmative action -- which kind of sounds like something Dr. Mindy Lahiri's younger brother Rishi might do on "The...

Mindy Kaling's brother Vijay Chokalingam says he got into med school in the late '90s by pretending to be black to take advantage of affirmative action -- which kind of sounds like something Dr. Mindy Lahiri's younger brother Rishi might do on "The...

A moment of quiet on “The Mindy Project”? It is possible.
The third season finale of the Fox comedy airs Tuesday, and Mindy Kaling--the eponymous heroine at its center--promises the usually totally chatty show will tone it down. At least briefly. And...

From the Oscars red carpet to the TV smash "Empire," Dolce & Gabbana is everywhere in Hollywood. But might that soon change?
Several celebrities have joined the boycott bandwagon launched by Elton John after fashion designers Domenico Dolce...